Arthur Howes

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Arthur Howes (15 July 1950 – 29 November 2004) was a British documentary film maker and teacher.

Arthur Joseph Christopher Howes
Born	(1950-07-15)15 July 1950 Gibraltar, United Kingdom
Died	29 November 2004(2004-11-29) (aged 54) London, United Kingdom
Notable work	Kafi's Story (1989) Nuba Conversations (2000) Benjamin and His Brother (2002)

Life

Howes was born in Gibraltar on 15 July 1950, and moved to London as a teenager.^[1] He was married to Amy Hardie and had one son. He died from lung cancer in London on 29 November 2004, aged 54.^[2]

Career

Howes studied teaching, then film-making at the Polytechnic of Central London.^[2] He went on to have a long career in documentary film-making and was particularly known for a trilogy about the Sudanese civil war.^[3] He also taught during his career at University of Essex and the London College of Printing.^[2] At this time of his death he was working on a film Bacchanalias Bahianas 1–5 which was left unfinished. He had worked on this film in Brazil and it focussed on beach culture in Bahia.^[3]

Sudanese films

• Kafi's Story (1989)
• Nuba Conversations (2000)
• Benjamin and his Brother (2002)